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jaeleslie at 08:17pm on 22/05/2004
jaeleslie at 08:17pm on 22/05/2004As I mentioned a couple days ago I've been stuck, doing every other thing there is to do in the house to avoid grappling with the artistic problems. Today it was just tortuous to do the next thing on a couple of pieces that I really want to have ready to hang next weekend.
I am not struggling with the lettering or the compositions. Just figuring out that I don't have to also design entirely new ways to approach composition was a big help. Keep it simple! I am trying to do the same kind of pieces I have been doing for years in watercolor, only in acrylic, which presents in a new form the technical problems that I have already licked in watercolor. Acrylic is sturdier, but less reversible when you want to revise. I keep wanting to test every material and procedure before working on these pieces that are supposed to be the tests! And on the other hand I keep throwing in cool things in a couple more media, a little gilding or collage or blockprinting, just because it looks interesting.
I am not struggling with the lettering or the compositions. Just figuring out that I don't have to also design entirely new ways to approach composition was a big help. Keep it simple! I am trying to do the same kind of pieces I have been doing for years in watercolor, only in acrylic, which presents in a new form the technical problems that I have already licked in watercolor. Acrylic is sturdier, but less reversible when you want to revise. I keep wanting to test every material and procedure before working on these pieces that are supposed to be the tests! And on the other hand I keep throwing in cool things in a couple more media, a little gilding or collage or blockprinting, just because it looks interesting.
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